# 10 CLI Tools That Amplify Terminal AI Agents

Category: Agent Orchestration
Stack: gh, Stripe CLI, Supabase CLI, Playwright, ffmpeg

## Overview
Why the terminal agent ecosystem favors native command-line binaries over heavy Model Context Protocol servers.

## The Problem
Running dozens of individual MCP servers increases context memory consumption and token overhead per prompt turn.

## Production Rule
Give terminal agents standard CLI binaries (gh, vercel, supabase, ffmpeg). Terminal agents already live in the shell; native CLIs execute faster with fewer tokens.

## Code / Specification
File: `cli_agent_dispatch.sh`

```dev tooling
# Direct terminal agent commands:
gh pr create --title "Feature: spend analytics ETL" --body "Automated by agent"
supabase db diff -f add_vendor_indices
playwright test tests/e2e/dashboard.spec.ts --reporter=json
```